Aayush Timsina
Carbondale,IL
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Board Member- President
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: International Student Council
- Serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Council, overseeing all executive functions and operations
- Act as the official representative of the Council in all matters, ensuring alignment with organizational and institutional goals
- Convene and preside over General Assembly and Executive Committee meetings, facilitating discussions and guiding strategic decision-making
- Exercise veto power to maintain governance standards and uphold Council policies
- Appoint and organize committees as necessary to support Council initiatives and address specific areas of need
- Serve as an ex officio member of various SIU committees, including the Student Center Board, Dean of Students Committee, and Health Center Advisory Board, ensuring Council representation
- Holding the authority to recommend sanctions or dismissal of elected officers, maintaining accountability within the Council
- Managed scheduling and financial planning for the Council, overseeing budgeting and resource allocation
- International Student Council
Member and Events Coordination Committee
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Graduate Professional Student Council
- Graduate Professional Student Council
Member
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Student Health Advisory Board
- Student Health Advisory Board
Graduate Research Assistant
Southern Illinois University
05.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Center for International Education International Admissions
- Maintain Center for International Education website
- Organizing workshops
- Creating admissions reports (Use Argos to generate the report)
- Design Questionnaires for Survey to International Students (housing, life at SIU and mental health)
- Answer emails for international admissions and upload the admissions documents in the Slate portal
- Center for International Education International Admissions
Nutrition Officer
Nepali Technical Assistance Group
12.2021 - Current
- Coordinate with local level health facilities and stake holders for implementation of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) Program
- Orient health workers on Family MUAC through local coordination
- Plan and conduct Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHV) level orientation on Family MUAC
- Conduct regular monitoring and supervision visits to ensure quality implementation of the program
- Track and ensure reporting of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) cases at Outpatient Therapeutic care (OTCs)
- Collect and submit vertical reporting forms on timely basis
- Prepare and submit program/event reports, case/success story, lesson learned and challenges regularly to District Coordinator
Executive Board Member- Media Officer
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2023 - 05.2024
- Company Overview: International Student Council
- Social Media & Web Management (ISC website)
- Internal Communication: Managed internal communication, disseminating information to the executive board members and ensuring effective collaboration within the team
- Event Promotion & Advertising: Created flyers for ISC events, advertising on D2L, and promoting events for international Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) on the ISC website
- International Student Council
Graduate Research Assistant
Southern Illinois University
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Company Overview: Center for International Education Study Abroad Programs
- Advise prospective study abroad students
- Maintain the Study Abroad Website
- Serve in helping with the events and activities that are organized by Study Abroad programs
- Creating study abroad report
- Communicating with students, faculty, and parents regarding study abroad
- Center for International Education Study Abroad Programs
COVID-19 Management Team (CICT Facilitator)
Health Office, Morang
12.2020 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Government of Nepal
- Regular follow up local health facilities for antigen and PCR Test
- Orientation to 17 palikas on contact tracing
- Ensuring if all the COVID-19 cases data have been uploaded in the system or not (recording and reporting in Information Management Unit-IMU)
- Preparation of weekly and monthly report of detailed activities of vaccination, antigen test and PCR test
- Management of vaccine centers during vaccination
- Hospital resource mapping
- Daily COVID reporting of Morang district to concerned authority
- Coordination for nation wide sero prevalence survey
- Government of Nepal
College Coordinator and Faculty Member
Nagarik Community Teaching Hospital Ltd.
02.2019 - 12.2020
- Major teaching subjects as a instructor: Community Health Nursing in Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL) in Nursing (1st year) and Health Education in Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL) in General Medicine (2nd year)
- Preparing Master Plan for Proficiency Certificate Level in General Medicine (1st and 2nd year)
- Arranging lectures and clinical duties in hospital settings
- Conduction of examinations on a regular basis
- Managing documents
- Supervising students in the community field and clinical duties in different units of hospitals as per the guideline
- Managing student’s welfare committee along with teaching
Research Assistant
GHAN (Global Health Alliance Nepal)
11.2018 - 12.2018
- Worked as research assistant for qualitative study on national strategy for reaching the unreached in remote areas of Nepal
- Carry out Focus Group Discussion, In-depth Interview and key Informant Interview from supply and demand site
- Transcribing the qualitative data
Field Researcher/ Enumerator
Health for Empowerment and Leadership Nepal
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Worked as field researcher/ enumerator for both quantitative and qualitative study for 'End Evaluation Study in Rasuwa district'
- Field movement planning
- Data Collection (quantitative and qualitative- (conduction of Focus Group Discussion, Key Informant Interview and In- depth Interview))
- Transcribing the qualitative data
Coordinator/Manager
Pulmonary Hypertension Association Nepal
03.2018 - 06.2018
- Feasibility of the days and sites of the first pulmonary hypertension health camp in the southeastern part of Nepal
- Coordinating with the local hospitals and volunteers to organize the health camp
- Preparation of questionnaire
- Train the data enumerators on 6-Minute Walk Test – a test used in screening of pulmonary hypertension patients
- Coordinate and manage the pulmonary hypertension talk show with the national and international cardiologists
Internship
Japan-Nepal Health and Tuberculosis Research Association
05.2017 - 09.2017
- Sensitization of health care providers working in private sector through Public Private Mix(PPM) orientation
- Sensitization and mobilization of Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHV) on Tuberculosis
- Conduction of mobile microscopic sputum camp
- Preparation of activity report
- TB/HIV co-infection and IPT therapy orientation
- Monthly FCHV meeting
- Treatment of Tuberculosis patients in JANTRA clinic
- Inception Orientation Workshop to Women Health Project
Data management
NFDF (Nepal Family Development Foundation)
02.2017 - 04.2017
- Activities based on research related to: 'Understanding the Burden of Enteric Fever in Africa and Asia: A Study of Transmission and Antibiotic Resistance to Improve Diagnostics and Inform Vaccine Strategy (STRATAA)'
Field Researcher in Jajarkot District
Nepal Red Cross Society
12.2016 - 01.2017
- Activities based on research related to: 'Incentive provision to health facility staff'
- 'Drug stock-out status'
- 'Awareness about the free health services supported for life threatening diseases from the government
Education
Master’s - Health Informatics/ Health Administration
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC)
Carbondale, IL07-2025
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS)
Kathmandu12.2017
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Photoshop
- iMovie
- SPSS
- Epi data
- R
- Python
Researchandprojects
- Research on 'Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Tribhuvan University Students in Kathmandu Valley', Submitted to Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, MMIHS, Kathmandu
- Strengthening Urban Tuberculosis Control in Kathmandu, Submitted to Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, MMIHS, Kathmandu
- Addressing the Parental Vaccine Hesitancy of the Measles Vaccine: Strategies and Intervention, Timsina, A., Hawthan, S., & Alhaddad, H., 12/04/22, Project for MHA-555-201 Health Care Promotion and Evaluation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Publications
- Healthcare Market, Government Intervention, and the Need for a Single-Payer System, Timsina, A., 2024, International Journal of Academic Health and Medical Research (IJAHMR), 8, 10, 19–24, 2643-9824, http://ijeais.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IJAHMR241006.pdf
- Advanced Access Scheduling: Impact on Healthcare Delivery and Issues, Timsina, A., 2024, International Journal of Academic Health and Medical Research (IJAHMR), 8, 10, 25–35, 2643-9824, http://ijeais.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IJAHMR241007.pdf
- Depression and Anxiety among Tribhuvan University Students in Kathmandu Valley, Timsina, A., 2018, Poster presented at the Fourth National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal, organized by the Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
Training
- CITI Program Certification, Verified by CITI Program
- Research Proposal Development, 09/11/17 - 09/15/17
- A Training on Information Management Unit (IMU), antigen and PCR testing, Organized by Epidemiological Disease Control Division (EDCD)- Government of Nepal
- A Training on Comprehensive Nutrition Specific Intervention (CNSI), 02/07/22 - 02/13/22
Leadershipandconferences
- ILHIMA Conference: Fall Meeting and Student Symposium- Health Information at the Crossroads of Change, 09/26/24 - 09/27/24
- A talk on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: the diagnosis you don’t want to miss, 2018
- Fourth National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal, 2018
Languages
English
Full Professional
Nepali
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Professional Working
Timeline
Executive Board Member- President
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
Member and Events Coordination Committee
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
Member
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2024 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
Southern Illinois University
05.2023 - Current
Executive Board Member- Media Officer
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
05.2023 - 05.2024
Graduate Research Assistant
Southern Illinois University
09.2022 - 05.2023
Nutrition Officer
Nepali Technical Assistance Group
12.2021 - Current
COVID-19 Management Team (CICT Facilitator)
Health Office, Morang
12.2020 - 07.2021
College Coordinator and Faculty Member
Nagarik Community Teaching Hospital Ltd.
02.2019 - 12.2020
Research Assistant
GHAN (Global Health Alliance Nepal)
11.2018 - 12.2018
Field Researcher/ Enumerator
Health for Empowerment and Leadership Nepal
06.2018 - 08.2018
Coordinator/Manager
Pulmonary Hypertension Association Nepal
03.2018 - 06.2018
Internship
Japan-Nepal Health and Tuberculosis Research Association
05.2017 - 09.2017
Data management
NFDF (Nepal Family Development Foundation)
02.2017 - 04.2017
Field Researcher in Jajarkot District
Nepal Red Cross Society
12.2016 - 01.2017
Master’s - Health Informatics/ Health Administration
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC)
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS)